Dinámicas espaciales y transición hacia la articulación de espacios metropolitanos. El caso de Temuco y su hinterland, Chile

Abstract

It analyzes the process of metropolization that the City of Temuco (Chile) would be experiencing in the last decades, articulated to a set of adjacent urban centers. For this purpose, a series of elements are considered, such as the increase of the constructed surface, the functional evolu­tion of the productive sectors and the mobility and consumption towards the regional capital. In addition to the above, the instruments of territorial planning in force are analyzed. It is argued that Temuco’s metropolization would be based on a subordinate integration of the satellite cities, which would become the new periphery of the city, forming a discontinuous urban space, in which the location of social housing and the instruments of territorial planning would be playing a central role in this territorial recomposition.